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<title>bpf: Restrict bpf_probe_read{, str}() only to archs where they work</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T15:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-15T10:11:16+00:00</published>
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commit 0ebeea8ca8a4d1d453ad299aef0507dab04f6e8d upstream.

Given the legacy bpf_probe_read{,str}() BPF helpers are broken on archs
with overlapping address ranges, we should really take the next step to
disable them from BPF use there.

To generally fix the situation, we've recently added new helper variants
bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}() and bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}_str().
For details on them, see 6ae08ae3dea2 ("bpf: Add probe_read_{user, kernel}
and probe_read_{user,kernel}_str helpers").

Given bpf_probe_read{,str}() have been around for ~5 years by now, there
are plenty of users at least on x86 still relying on them today, so we
cannot remove them entirely w/o breaking the BPF tracing ecosystem.

However, their use should be restricted to archs with non-overlapping
address ranges where they are working in their current form. Therefore,
move this behind a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE and
have x86, arm64, arm select it (other archs supporting it can follow-up
on it as well).

For the remaining archs, they can workaround easily by relying on the
feature probe from bpftool which spills out defines that can be used out
of BPF C code to implement the drop-in replacement for old/new kernels
via: bpftool feature probe macro

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0ebeea8ca8a4d1d453ad299aef0507dab04f6e8d upstream.

Given the legacy bpf_probe_read{,str}() BPF helpers are broken on archs
with overlapping address ranges, we should really take the next step to
disable them from BPF use there.

To generally fix the situation, we've recently added new helper variants
bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}() and bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}_str().
For details on them, see 6ae08ae3dea2 ("bpf: Add probe_read_{user, kernel}
and probe_read_{user,kernel}_str helpers").

Given bpf_probe_read{,str}() have been around for ~5 years by now, there
are plenty of users at least on x86 still relying on them today, so we
cannot remove them entirely w/o breaking the BPF tracing ecosystem.

However, their use should be restricted to archs with non-overlapping
address ranges where they are working in their current form. Therefore,
move this behind a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE and
have x86, arm64, arm select it (other archs supporting it can follow-up
on it as well).

For the remaining archs, they can workaround easily by relying on the
feature probe from bpftool which spills out defines that can be used out
of BPF C code to implement the drop-in replacement for old/new kernels
via: bpftool feature probe macro

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>bpf: Restrict bpf_trace_printk()'s %s usage and add %pks, %pus specifier</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-15T10:11:18+00:00</published>
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commit b2a5212fb634561bb734c6356904e37f6665b955 upstream.

Usage of plain %s conversion specifier in bpf_trace_printk() suffers from the
very same issue as bpf_probe_read{,str}() helpers, that is, it is broken on
archs with overlapping address ranges.

While the helpers have been addressed through work in 6ae08ae3dea2 ("bpf: Add
probe_read_{user, kernel} and probe_read_{user, kernel}_str helpers"), we need
an option for bpf_trace_printk() as well to fix it.

Similarly as with the helpers, force users to make an explicit choice by adding
%pks and %pus specifier to bpf_trace_printk() which will then pick the corresponding
strncpy_from_unsafe*() variant to perform the access under KERNEL_DS or USER_DS.
The %pk* (kernel specifier) and %pu* (user specifier) can later also be extended
for other objects aside strings that are probed and printed under tracing, and
reused out of other facilities like bpf_seq_printf() or BTF based type printing.

Existing behavior of %s for current users is still kept working for archs where it
is not broken and therefore gated through CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE.
For archs not having this property we fall-back to pick probing under KERNEL_DS as
a sensible default.

Fixes: 8d3b7dce8622 ("bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk()")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b2a5212fb634561bb734c6356904e37f6665b955 upstream.

Usage of plain %s conversion specifier in bpf_trace_printk() suffers from the
very same issue as bpf_probe_read{,str}() helpers, that is, it is broken on
archs with overlapping address ranges.

While the helpers have been addressed through work in 6ae08ae3dea2 ("bpf: Add
probe_read_{user, kernel} and probe_read_{user, kernel}_str helpers"), we need
an option for bpf_trace_printk() as well to fix it.

Similarly as with the helpers, force users to make an explicit choice by adding
%pks and %pus specifier to bpf_trace_printk() which will then pick the corresponding
strncpy_from_unsafe*() variant to perform the access under KERNEL_DS or USER_DS.
The %pk* (kernel specifier) and %pu* (user specifier) can later also be extended
for other objects aside strings that are probed and printed under tracing, and
reused out of other facilities like bpf_seq_printf() or BTF based type printing.

Existing behavior of %s for current users is still kept working for archs where it
is not broken and therefore gated through CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE.
For archs not having this property we fall-back to pick probing under KERNEL_DS as
a sensible default.

Fixes: 8d3b7dce8622 ("bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk()")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T20:57:10+00:00</published>
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commit 78a5255ffb6a1af189a83e493d916ba1c54d8c75 upstream.

We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.

For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions &lt; 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size.  And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).

And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.

At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.

So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".

Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would.  In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.

That's currently not the world we live in, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 78a5255ffb6a1af189a83e493d916ba1c54d8c75 upstream.

We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.

For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions &lt; 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size.  And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).

And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.

At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.

So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".

Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would.  In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.

That's currently not the world we live in, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ftrace: Have ftrace trampolines turn read-only at the end of system boot up</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:22:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-01T00:21:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 59566b0b622e3e6ea928c0b8cac8a5601b00b383 ]

Booting one of my machines, it triggered the following crash:

 Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
 ftrace: allocating 36577 entries in 143 pages
 Starting tracer 'function'
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffa000005c
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
 PGD 2014067 P4D 2014067 PUD 2015063 PMD 7b253067 PTE 7b252061
 Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.4.0-test+ #24
 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
 RIP: 0010:text_poke_early+0x4a/0x58
 Code: 34 24 48 89 54 24 08 e8 bf 72 0b 00 48 8b 34 24 48 8b 4c 24 08 84 c0 74 0b 48 89 df f3 a4 48 83 c4 10 5b c3 9c 58 fa 48 89 df &lt;f3&gt; a4 50 9d 48 83 c4 10 5b e9 d6 f9 ff ff
0 41 57 49
 RSP: 0000:ffffffff82003d38 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffffa000005c RCX: 0000000000000005
 RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffffff825b9a90 RDI: ffffffffa000005c
 RBP: ffffffffa000005c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8206e6e0
 R10: ffff88807b01f4c0 R11: ffffffff8176c106 R12: ffffffff8206e6e0
 R13: ffffffff824f2440 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8206eac0
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: ffffffffa000005c CR3: 0000000002012000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 Call Trace:
  text_poke_bp+0x27/0x64
  ? mutex_lock+0x36/0x5d
  arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x287/0x2d5
  ? ftrace_replace_code+0x14b/0x160
  ? ftrace_update_ftrace_func+0x65/0x6c
  __register_ftrace_function+0x6d/0x81
  ftrace_startup+0x23/0xc1
  register_ftrace_function+0x20/0x37
  func_set_flag+0x59/0x77
  __set_tracer_option.isra.19+0x20/0x3e
  trace_set_options+0xd6/0x13e
  apply_trace_boot_options+0x44/0x6d
  register_tracer+0x19e/0x1ac
  early_trace_init+0x21b/0x2c9
  start_kernel+0x241/0x518
  ? load_ucode_intel_bsp+0x21/0x52
  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

I was able to trigger it on other machines, when I added to the kernel
command line of both "ftrace=function" and "trace_options=func_stack_trace".

The cause is the "ftrace=function" would register the function tracer
and create a trampoline, and it will set it as executable and
read-only. Then the "trace_options=func_stack_trace" would then update
the same trampoline to include the stack tracer version of the function
tracer. But since the trampoline already exists, it updates it with
text_poke_bp(). The problem is that text_poke_bp() called while
system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING, it will simply do a memcpy() and not
the page mapping, as it would think that the text is still read-write.
But in this case it is not, and we take a fault and crash.

Instead, lets keep the ftrace trampolines read-write during boot up,
and then when the kernel executable text is set to read-only, the
ftrace trampolines get set to read-only as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200430202147.4dc6e2de@oasis.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 768ae4406a5c ("x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 59566b0b622e3e6ea928c0b8cac8a5601b00b383 ]

Booting one of my machines, it triggered the following crash:

 Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
 ftrace: allocating 36577 entries in 143 pages
 Starting tracer 'function'
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffa000005c
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
 PGD 2014067 P4D 2014067 PUD 2015063 PMD 7b253067 PTE 7b252061
 Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.4.0-test+ #24
 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
 RIP: 0010:text_poke_early+0x4a/0x58
 Code: 34 24 48 89 54 24 08 e8 bf 72 0b 00 48 8b 34 24 48 8b 4c 24 08 84 c0 74 0b 48 89 df f3 a4 48 83 c4 10 5b c3 9c 58 fa 48 89 df &lt;f3&gt; a4 50 9d 48 83 c4 10 5b e9 d6 f9 ff ff
0 41 57 49
 RSP: 0000:ffffffff82003d38 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffffa000005c RCX: 0000000000000005
 RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffffff825b9a90 RDI: ffffffffa000005c
 RBP: ffffffffa000005c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8206e6e0
 R10: ffff88807b01f4c0 R11: ffffffff8176c106 R12: ffffffff8206e6e0
 R13: ffffffff824f2440 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8206eac0
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: ffffffffa000005c CR3: 0000000002012000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 Call Trace:
  text_poke_bp+0x27/0x64
  ? mutex_lock+0x36/0x5d
  arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x287/0x2d5
  ? ftrace_replace_code+0x14b/0x160
  ? ftrace_update_ftrace_func+0x65/0x6c
  __register_ftrace_function+0x6d/0x81
  ftrace_startup+0x23/0xc1
  register_ftrace_function+0x20/0x37
  func_set_flag+0x59/0x77
  __set_tracer_option.isra.19+0x20/0x3e
  trace_set_options+0xd6/0x13e
  apply_trace_boot_options+0x44/0x6d
  register_tracer+0x19e/0x1ac
  early_trace_init+0x21b/0x2c9
  start_kernel+0x241/0x518
  ? load_ucode_intel_bsp+0x21/0x52
  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

I was able to trigger it on other machines, when I added to the kernel
command line of both "ftrace=function" and "trace_options=func_stack_trace".

The cause is the "ftrace=function" would register the function tracer
and create a trampoline, and it will set it as executable and
read-only. Then the "trace_options=func_stack_trace" would then update
the same trampoline to include the stack tracer version of the function
tracer. But since the trampoline already exists, it updates it with
text_poke_bp(). The problem is that text_poke_bp() called while
system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING, it will simply do a memcpy() and not
the page mapping, as it would think that the text is still read-write.
But in this case it is not, and we take a fault and crash.

Instead, lets keep the ftrace trampolines read-write during boot up,
and then when the kernel executable text is set to read-only, the
ftrace trampolines get set to read-only as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200430202147.4dc6e2de@oasis.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 768ae4406a5c ("x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to execute</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T15:35:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8b1fac2e73e84ef0d6391051880a8e1d7044c847 ]

A bug report was posted that running the preempt irq delay module on a slow
machine, and removing it quickly could lead to the thread created by the
modlue to execute after the module is removed, and this could cause the
kernel to crash. The fix for this was to call kthread_stop() after creating
the thread to make sure it finishes before allowing the module to be
removed.

Now this caused the opposite problem on fast machines. What now happens is
the kthread_stop() can cause the kthread never to execute and the test never
to run. To fix this, add a completion and wait for the kthread to execute,
then wait for it to end.

This issue caused the ftracetest selftests to fail on the preemptirq tests.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200510114210.15d9e4af@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d16a8c31077e ("tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to finish")
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8b1fac2e73e84ef0d6391051880a8e1d7044c847 ]

A bug report was posted that running the preempt irq delay module on a slow
machine, and removing it quickly could lead to the thread created by the
modlue to execute after the module is removed, and this could cause the
kernel to crash. The fix for this was to call kthread_stop() after creating
the thread to make sure it finishes before allowing the module to be
removed.

Now this caused the opposite problem on fast machines. What now happens is
the kthread_stop() can cause the kthread never to execute and the test never
to run. To fix this, add a completion and wait for the kthread to execute,
then wait for it to end.

This issue caused the ftracetest selftests to fail on the preemptirq tests.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200510114210.15d9e4af@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d16a8c31077e ("tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to finish")
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add a vmalloc_sync_mappings() for safe measure</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T14:36:18+00:00</published>
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commit 11f5efc3ab66284f7aaacc926e9351d658e2577b upstream.

x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.

Commit 763802b53a42 ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 11f5efc3ab66284f7aaacc926e9351d658e2577b upstream.

x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.

Commit 763802b53a42 ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to finish</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T14:20:10+00:00</published>
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commit d16a8c31077e75ecb9427fbfea59b74eed00f698 upstream.

Running on a slower machine, it is possible that the preempt delay kernel
thread may still be executing if the module was immediately removed after
added, and this can cause the kernel to crash as the kernel thread might be
executing after its code has been removed.

There's no reason that the caller of the code shouldn't just wait for the
delay thread to finish, as the thread can also be created by a trigger in
the sysfs code, which also has the same issues.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/5EA2B0C8.2080706@cn.fujitsu.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 793937236d1ee ("lib: Add module for testing preemptoff/irqsoff latency tracers")
Reported-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d16a8c31077e75ecb9427fbfea59b74eed00f698 upstream.

Running on a slower machine, it is possible that the preempt delay kernel
thread may still be executing if the module was immediately removed after
added, and this can cause the kernel to crash as the kernel thread might be
executing after its code has been removed.

There's no reason that the caller of the code shouldn't just wait for the
delay thread to finish, as the thread can also be created by a trigger in
the sysfs code, which also has the same issues.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/5EA2B0C8.2080706@cn.fujitsu.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 793937236d1ee ("lib: Add module for testing preemptoff/irqsoff latency tracers")
Reported-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Reject new event if loc is NULL</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-25T05:49:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8db9e7e13d5a1f251e2edb1c91862f8bd5ca3968'/>
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commit 5b4dcd2d201a395ad4054067bfae4a07554fbd65 upstream.

Reject the new event which has NULL location for kprobes.
For kprobes, user must specify at least the location.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779376597.6082.1411212055469099461.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5b4dcd2d201a395ad4054067bfae4a07554fbd65 upstream.

Reject the new event which has NULL location for kprobes.
For kprobes, user must specify at least the location.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779376597.6082.1411212055469099461.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/boottime: Fix kprobe event API usage</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-25T05:49:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=419b6ef27860b28bb9a7c041478f974ba0fba457'/>
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commit da0f1f4167e3af69e1d8b32d6d65195ddd2bfb64 upstream.

Fix boottime kprobe events to use API correctly for
multiple events.

For example, when we set a multiprobe kprobe events in
bootconfig like below,

  ftrace.event.kprobes.myevent {
  	probes = "vfs_read $arg1 $arg2", "vfs_write $arg1 $arg2"
  }

This cause an error;

  trace_boot: Failed to add probe: p:kprobes/myevent (null)  vfs_read $arg1 $arg2  vfs_write $arg1 $arg2

This shows the 1st argument becomes NULL and multiprobes
are merged to 1 probe.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779375766.6082.201939936008972838.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 29a154810546 ("tracing: Change trace_boot to use kprobe_event interface")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit da0f1f4167e3af69e1d8b32d6d65195ddd2bfb64 upstream.

Fix boottime kprobe events to use API correctly for
multiple events.

For example, when we set a multiprobe kprobe events in
bootconfig like below,

  ftrace.event.kprobes.myevent {
  	probes = "vfs_read $arg1 $arg2", "vfs_write $arg1 $arg2"
  }

This cause an error;

  trace_boot: Failed to add probe: p:kprobes/myevent (null)  vfs_read $arg1 $arg2  vfs_write $arg1 $arg2

This shows the 1st argument becomes NULL and multiprobes
are merged to 1 probe.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779375766.6082.201939936008972838.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 29a154810546 ("tracing: Change trace_boot to use kprobe_event interface")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Fix a double initialization typo</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-25T05:49:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dcbd21c9fca5e954fd4e3d91884907eb6d47187e ]

Fix a typo that resulted in an unnecessary double
initialization to addr.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779374968.6082.2337484008464939919.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7411a1a126f ("tracing/kprobe: Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dcbd21c9fca5e954fd4e3d91884907eb6d47187e ]

Fix a typo that resulted in an unnecessary double
initialization to addr.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779374968.6082.2337484008464939919.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7411a1a126f ("tracing/kprobe: Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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